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THE PERVERSITY OF SCOTT PRUIT

Up-is -down maestro Pruitt signals the deformed double-think now proffered by Trump and his lieutenants. Want cleaner air? Burn more coal. Yeah, right.

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LINDSEY GRAHAM ON HIS KNEES AGAIN

Remember Estelle Winwood in The Producers, beseeching Zero to play “The CountessĀ  and the Chauffeur?” Well, Graham really gets into “Dictator Over Country.” Jonathan Lemire, Eric Tucker and Lisa Mascaro at Talking Points Memo report thatĀ Sen. Graham is “warming” to … Continue reading

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CRIMINAL COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND NFL

The craven, doddering rich white men who run the NFL colluded with the craven, addled, rich-from-criminality President Trump to suppress the civil rights of United States citizens. Will the Democrats dare murmur a protest?

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YES, YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT

At New York City Ballet, Maria Kowroski danced Mozartiana last night better than she had ten years ago!

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WHY CAN’T THE DEMS TALK LIKE FDR?

When the Republicans started hauling out Hitler’s Big Lie playbook as a campaign strategy in 1944, FDR swung into action. Thom Hartman of the the Independent Media Institutes quotes at Alternet the words of a Democrat who fought back–and boy, … Continue reading

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GUILIANI BOOED AT YANKEE STADIUM

Sort of like the final scene in Dangerous Liaisons, when society decides it has finally had enough.

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THE REASON(s) MAGGIE HABERMAN WON’T CALL TRUMP A LIAR

Fray-hardened snowflake Haberman gets into yet another snit because now it’s John Cusack asking her to call Trump’s lies what they are. There are two reasons why The New York Times cannot yet wean itself away from decades of finger-in-the-air … Continue reading

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JEANINE PIRRO GOES EVEN MORE BATSO WHEN CONFRONTED BY FACTS

Bartiromo’s co-conspirator Judge Jeanine cannot anymore–if ever she could–conduct a rational discourse when her propaganda bytes are challenged by troublesome intrusions of fact and reality. Her totally over-the-top histrionics are meant to compensate for the fact that she can hardly … Continue reading

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BRIAN SCHATZ IS FABULOUS, BUT

John Norton tweets: “Sen. Schatz you and your colleagues need to be much more vocal in pushing back on Trump’s nonsense. You have great message on Twitter. Please do some television interviews.”

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PROFOUND WORDS ON THE CROSSROADS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

“What is at stake now is the identity of the university itself,” Jon Paul Sydnor writes at Daily Kos. “And with it, the fate of knowledge and citizenship in America. “The conflict is between two different visions of what the … Continue reading

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